Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back over at the work i have done to create and design my magazine, i know that i understand conventions of a magazine alot more than i did before. I know this as from doing various analysis's on front pages of magazines etc, i never knew or thought of all the different aspects which come together and make a great magazine cover and draw the target audience in to buy your magazine,
I discovered what the usual and most commonly used conventions there were and how some of them were set out similarly. One obvious convention is the masthead which i realised was almost always stuck at the top of the page in big writing and this is to attract the readers attention to the name. By learning and understanding more about the conventions, i think it reflects on my work that i did have knowledge on this and knew what kind of features would attract my target audience.
One thing that i know i have learnt from is my skills and thought processes on the software Serif Page Plus. When i was first trying it out and making my school music magazine front cover, i had no idea how to use the software and everything just looked rather messy. After practises and researching the best ways to use the software, i have basically mastered the use of page plus and i can do anything i would like in terms of designing a page. I have improved the editing of images and colours on the page from my preliminary task as when i look back on what i have previously done, i am able to clearly see the poor quality of my work and photo editing. My standard of magazine designing had improve alot as i understand lots more about the different aspects.
Another thing which i am happy about and know that i have improved on is my photo shoot. For the photo shoot for my preliminary task, i didnt put much thought into it and i used quite sure what the poses and postures had to be for the models, Overall the photo shoot could be alot better for this task, which if i re did would improve it alot.
Since then, i started to look at the poses and expressions on models faces for magazines and tried to project this onto my magazine, In my photo shoot for a celebrity staring my magazine i told them to look happy, big smiles doing what she loves. From this i wanted the audience to feel involved in the fun Hannah wants is having and this could be persuasive to buy the magazine.
I realised when i was shooting pictures for my music magazine that the mise en scene is very important for the atmosphere of the magazine, also props for the pictures which can make a big difference for the story line of the images and draw more attention.
When i was doing my preliminary task, i was picking the colour scheme due to what i liked and thought looked good. From research i realised this was completely wrong and the incorrect way of colour scheming a magazine. I discovered that colours on a magazine have a meaning which i why i chose pink as the main colour for my magazine, as that is a girly colour which is most commonly found on magazines for women. I also learnt that green was a colour for youth, so i made sure i had abit of green on my magazine as my target audience is young people, When i look back on the preliminary task i see that my ideas were poor and it wouldnt of been a good selling magazine.